Child&#39;s and lady&#39;s garment



A. C. BERRY.

CHILDS AND LADY'S GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 29, 19m. RENEWED JULY 20. I920.

1,369,761. Patented Feb. 22, 1921.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS ANNE COLLINS BERRY, OF RICHMOND HILL, NEW YOBB' cnrnn's am) LADYS canmmrr.

Specification ctl'letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 22, 1921.

Application flied February 29, 1916, Serial No. 81,297. Renewed July 20, 1820. Serial No. 887,705.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANNE CoLLINs BERRY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Richmond Hill, county of Queens, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Childrens and Ladies Garments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to union arments in the form of an outside piece oi apparel or a piece of underwear, a night-dress or the like, andthe invention has to deal particularlv with the portion of the garment covering the body from the waist down to the knee? and embodies essentially a novel pattern 0 skirt and bloomer legs so designed that a neatly appearing garment is produced with a minimum of material and without bulkiness at the bloomer legs, whereby comfort and freedom of motion is obtained, as well as the proper set of the skirt. The new combination of bloomer legs and skirt lends itself to a variety of forms of garments and the bottom of the skirt can be finished with a hem, tuck or flounce, or made without a. hem, tuck or flounce, in which case the bottom of the skirt will hang gracefully as if the skirt were cut from an ordinary pattern without bloomer legs attached.

For a more complete understanding of the invention reference is to be had to the following description and claims taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, which illustrates certain embodiments of the invention and wherein similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a dress shown on the figure of a child;

Fi 2 is a front view of the dress spread out at;

Fig. 3 is a side view of the dress as when it is on a child;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged vertical section of the lower portion of the garment;

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the front or rear section of the union garment shown in Fig. 1'

Fig. 6 is a view showing the straight ieces forming the placket between the leg oles' Fi 7 is a view showing acombined skirt and loomer garment;

Fig. 8 is a plan view of one of the sections from which the garment shown in Fig. 7 is made;

Fig. 9 is a view of an under rment with a flounce extending around the ottom there- 'of' and It is to be understood that the invention,

which relates to the lower art of a garment and bloomer legs comblned therewith, can be embodied as a dress, as shown in Fig. l, a skirt garment, as shown in Fig. 2. or as an under arment, as shown in Figs. 9 and 10, and urthermore, the invention can be embodied as a bathing suit, ni lit-dress, etc.

eferring to Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive, the garment A is preferably composed of front and rear sections 1 and 2, each of which may be made from a single piece of goods or a plurality of pieces sewed together. Each section embodies a skirt portion 3, which has lateral edges 4 that diverge downwardly from the armpits in the type of garment shown in Fig. 1, or from the waist in the type shown in Fig. 7, and below the bottom of the skirt portion, indicated by the dotted line 5, the garment section continues into the portion 6 that forms the front or rear portion of the bloomers. The bloomer portion 6 has its side edges 7 converging downwardly from the line 5 to the oints 8. from which the edges of the bloomer portions converge abruptly to the points 9. The converging edges 7 of the two sections are sewed together to-form the side seams of the bloomer legs, and the edges 4 of the sections are sewed together to complete the skirt. The abruptly converging edges 10 are not sewed toget er, so as to form the leg openings of the garment. The edges 10 are folded back along the lines 11 ,into hems for receiving an elastic or draw string 12, as shown in Fig. 4, whereby the bloomer legs can be snugly fitted around the limbs of the wearer, or, if desired, the legs can be left free or open which is especially desirable in the case 0 drawers. The part 13 between the leg openings 14 constitutes a placket. To form this lacket the front and rear sections may have a central inverted V-shaped recess 13 cut therein, although this particular shape is not absolutely necessary. Along t e edges of the recess 13 or the portion between the leg openin each section of the garment has sewed t ereto straight pieces of goods 15. These straight pieces afiord an adequate foundation for buttons and buttonholes, whereby the part of the garment between the legs can be buttoned and unbuttoned. In a union garment constructed in the manner disclosed the ler openings are close to ether and there wil be a mlnimum bulk ot matcrial between the legs of the wearer, and furthermore, the outer portions of the leg openings will lie inwardly from the bottom edge of the skirt, which will hang in a fold on the circular line 5. The graceful hang of the skirt portion of the garment is obtained by the front and rear sections being of greatest length at the center, b the rear section being slightly longer tian the front section, according to the size of the wearer, and by the side portions of the bloomer legs converging downwardly. The garment may be made with a hem around the bottom of the skirt, in which case the bloomer legs are folded upwardly into the skirt on the curved line 5, and the skirt and bloomer portions are sewed together by a line of stitching 16 parallel with the line of fold 5. In this case, as shown in Figs. l to 7-3, the circular hem or tuck 17 thus formed overhangs the bloomer legs. In addition to the hem, a ruille or flounce 17', as shown in Fig. 9, can be sewed to the bottom of the skirt. It is to be understood that a hem is not essential to impalt to the garment a. proper skirt effect, as will be seen from Fig. 10. lVhen a hem is employed the same can be let out or made narrower from time to time in order to lengthen the garment as the wearer grows.

I claim:

1. A union garment comprising a skirt flaring downwardly and bloomer legs connected with the bottom portion of the skirt, there being a placket extending from the inner side of one leg opening to the inner side of the other leg opening, and fasteners for closing the Jacket, said garment being made of simi ar front and back sections and each having the side edges of the skirt and bloomer portions sewed together, the

sections being folded on a. curved line and sewed to form a circular tuck or hem at the bottom of the garment which overhangs the bloomer legs, the legs of the garment being so constructed that when the garment is worn the legs cover the bottom space of the skirt and fasten around the wearers limbs.

2. A garment designed to be worn Without petticoats or drawers and including legs having a placket extending from the bottom edge of one leg to the crotch and from the crotch to the bottom edge of the other leg, strips of straight material stitched along the edges of the placket, and fastening means on the strips for closing the placket, the legs of the garment being so constructed that when the garment is worn the legs hang down from the skirt portion with the lower ends of the legs fastened around the wearers legs above the knees.

3. A union garment designed to be worn without petticoats or drawers, the. same comprising a skirt flaring downwardly and bloomcr legs connected with the bottom ortion of the skirt, there being a placket extending from the inner side of one leg opening to the inner side of the other leg opening, and fasteners for closing the placket, said garment being made of similar front and back sections sewed together and each having the side edges of the skirt portion diverging downwardly and the side edges of the bloomer leg portion converging dmrnwanlly, the sections being folded on a curved line and sewed to form a circular tuck or hem at the bottom of the garment which overhangs the bloomer legs, the legs of the garment being so constructed that when the garment is worn the legs hang down from the skirt portion with the lower ends of the legs fastened around the Wearers legs above the knees.

I hereby affirm that the above is correct.

ANNE COLLINS BERRY.

Witnesses:

W. A. HAINES, WILLIS E. GORHAM. 

